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How Much Land Does the Federal Government Own?
All Voices ^ | July 18, 2008

Posted on 07/27/2011 4:38:42 AM PDT by don-o

This data was originally published in Stanford Magazine. It demonstrates what percentage of the land in each state is owned directly by the federal government.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: agenda21; executiveorders; fedgov; fedzilla; un
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To: don-o

if you count wetland regulations and the chesapeake bay and ocean watersheds, maryland is 100% owned by the state and feds.

the data displayed on the map is appalling. we have no private property rights anymore...

welcome to the new world order.

teeman


21 posted on 07/27/2011 5:34:18 AM PDT by teeman8r (armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: jimnm

“It’s sick that fire prevention efforts have been co-opted by the environazis.”

You can drive through sections of the national forests that are just blackened stumps and nothing has grown back for 50 years because the fires were so super hot it sterilized the soil.


22 posted on 07/27/2011 5:35:43 AM PDT by Liberty Wins
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To: WellyP
Will that bring lake Meade back to full pool. Need to file this argument in the silly file

Forget to add that if you fools think you are going to sell off the eastern forest lands, there will be a whole bunch of hunters will to fight you over that one and most of them are rather well armed. This kook idea of selling national forest is nothing more than an idiot ideal of the Ron Paul crowd.

23 posted on 07/27/2011 5:35:55 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: don-o

Didn’t Clinton sell some of this land to foreigners and aren’t drug dealers cultivating it?


24 posted on 07/27/2011 5:38:59 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: org.whodat

Get yourself a freah bowl of corn flakes. Sounds like somebody pee-peeed in yours this morning.


25 posted on 07/27/2011 5:51:45 AM PDT by don-o (Abolish FReepathons. Be a monthly donor.)
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To: don-o
Through executive oreders President Clinton, during his eight years in the White House, locking away 5.9 million acres all told throughout the country.

In 1996, he created the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by taking control of 1.9 million acres of land in southern Utah. Over 135,000 acres of this land was being leased by private developers were producing over 65,000 barrels of oil a year from five active wells. Bill Clinton’s fiat shut down those operations and capped those wells for good, depriving the country of a significant source of domestic energy.

26 posted on 07/27/2011 5:54:26 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: org.whodat

I agree that much of it is unusable to most people but I don’t think it is constitutional and I wonder why no one has ever taken it through the court system.


27 posted on 07/27/2011 6:01:05 AM PDT by tiki
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To: don-o
How Much Land Does the Federal Government Own?

All of it. Our government no longer protects personal property rights. Just because they haven't taken yours yet doesn't mean they won't.

28 posted on 07/27/2011 6:12:14 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: don-o

What we need is a great big LAND SALE!

A) Uncle Sam is broke and he needs the money.

B) (Just on Principle) It makes NO SENSE for ANY “government” to “own” 30% of ANY “Free” country.


29 posted on 07/27/2011 6:17:09 AM PDT by OkiMusashi (Beware the fury of a patient man. --- John Dryden)
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To: don-o

Too much.


30 posted on 07/27/2011 6:30:47 AM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: don-o
When one throws tax-exempt "open space" districts, trusts, and foundations into the total, effectively land that the Federal government controls by taxation, the picture gets far worse.

The answer is: Our creditors own the West.

31 posted on 07/27/2011 6:30:52 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Democrats are no longer into "tax and spend," now it's all about "spend and tax.")
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To: Straight Vermonter
BLM land is where most of the mining in the west happens. It is also where much of the cattle grazing in the west happens.

BZZZT!!! Wrongo! Grazing has been virtually shut down so that corporate ag and overseas investors can cash in, while mining is the almost exclusive province of overseas interests (see "creditors").

32 posted on 07/27/2011 6:34:27 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Democrats are no longer into "tax and spend," now it's all about "spend and tax.")
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To: sayuncledave

I’d go for that, but most of that land probably isn’t worth much, really. Mostly desert.

I think SOME could be sold to companies, but only up to a certain number of acres per organization total. Preference given to institutions and individuals that are US based and wish to use the land for anything that would create jobs.


33 posted on 07/27/2011 6:39:47 AM PDT by RockinRight (If we're "teabaggers" then they're "d-baggers.")
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To: don-o
Do believe you have that backwards, your I want a free ride, washed back on you, now do not be late for the next libaturd meeting. Ron Paul will be mad.

and the next time you dig up this crap remove the lands that the government holds in trust for the native Americans.

34 posted on 07/27/2011 6:40:43 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: org.whodat

How is it something for nothing? Excluding actual national parks, although the land isn’t worth that much, I can’t see any reason for the government to own it. Why NOT sell it?


35 posted on 07/27/2011 6:41:00 AM PDT by RockinRight (If we're "teabaggers" then they're "d-baggers.")
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To: sayuncledave

What do you think the criminal traitors in Washington are using for collateral to induce the ChiComs to loan trillions of dollars to us?


36 posted on 07/27/2011 6:42:10 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: RockinRight

Why we have thousands of buildings, and locations in the rust belt falling down. Those locations have water and people looking for work.


37 posted on 07/27/2011 6:42:37 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: RockinRight
Some day it may be needed, in the mean time, the little animals need a home. LOL, actually people that want to sell these lands either want to steal it are they are the type that would eat there seed corn and have nothing for the future. Also a lot of it is Indian reservation land.
38 posted on 07/27/2011 6:46:14 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

That is true, all but the reservation lands.


39 posted on 07/27/2011 6:48:11 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: don-o

I hear the ChiComs would love to buy lots of that Western land especially in California and move a few millions of Chinese settlers there

The ChiComs pay 2-3 trillion and that takes a large chunk out of the Federale debt. The Germans were demanding the Greeks sell the Parthenon and other historic sites to raise cash.


40 posted on 07/27/2011 6:48:13 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT -- works better if you're already smart)
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